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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would bet the plan is already wired to screw over the Swanson walkers. They just aren't rich enough for the SB to care. That said, I hope that the Swanson walkers win and get to walk to their neighborhood school, and that the S Arlington contingent so intent on screwing those middle class kids, rather than advocating for kids from other neighborhoods already in buses to go to Kenmore, get absolutely nothing. [/quote]

That is in your  head. There is no South Arlington coalition asking that Families currently zoned Swason get screwed. I don’t know how many times people on this thread have said they would be supportive of kids from other neighborhoods helping balance demographics. They are merely looking for the most likely and feasible solution. Besides south Arlington parents aren’t paying attention. To anything. They are largely a clueless bunch. [/quote] And the most likely solution is targeting less wealthy walkers rather than proposing an alternate solution. So I hope they get nothing. [/quote]

I hate to break it to you, something is going to happen.

My guess is that they spilt up that group. Half will get to stay, and half will get shifted. THat of course is the worst possible outcome. All of those kids need to go to help demographics. [b]The crazy Swanson poster[/b] is probably get their way, but the argument will likely make things worse for their neighbors. 
Oh well. It’s the Arlington Way.[/quote]

Why is he or she crazy? Surely you could come up with a better argument to promote your biased position? Just "crazy"?

APS will have a new MS. APS draws new boundaries in order to fill said new MS. To do so, several criteria and priorities are on the table. Demographics is one of at least 6, yet it's the one that gets thrown in the face of parents who legitimately want their kids to walk to school. They (we) are called "racists" and posters debate for days on an online forum whether we purchased our properties by scrimping or what have you, as if any of it mattered. At least a handful of posters speak of these walker kids as though they should be used as an instrument to improve the situation of other kids, but I don't see the same respect or concern being shown to these walkers. Because forget options that would redistribute kids who are already on buses or creating islands if demographics is the one overriding criterion - no, it all must rest on the shoulders of a bunch of *actual* walkers just because they are the perfect middle, not as rich as the far North and rich enough to give Kenmore a few extra percentage points.

Oh, and for you who insist on using the cheap race card, remember how these neighborhoods fruitlessly opposed the move from W-L to Yorktown last year? [/quote]

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